Awards & Achievements

1. The first major awards won by the band were their two Grammys in 1964 - Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group.
2. They won 7 Grammy awards in total...
3. ...along with a massive 15 Ivor Novello awards.
4. The Beatles are the only band to have ever held all of the top five positions on the Billboard chart.
5. The Fab Four even won an Oscar in 1970 for Best Music for their film Let It Be.
6. The Beatles are supposedly the best-selling musical group of all time. According to EMI, they have sold over one billion units.
7. In the US, The lads hold the record for the most weeks at number one - 132 in total.
8. When the boys appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, it received the highest ratings for any TV broadcast ever made until that point.
9. IN the list of the 100 best-selling singles of all time in the UK, the Beatles appear five times. Behind them, the most any other group appears is twice.
10. In 1965, the Fab Four were each awarded the MBE by the Queen. John sent his back a few years later however, in protest against the UK’s support of America in the Vietnam war.